Officer Shot In Struggle Released From Hospital

Miramar — A Miramar police officer who was shot with his own gun and stabbed during a struggle with a violent suspect was released Tuesday from Memorial Regional Memorial Hospital in Hollywood.

Officer Scott Hadley, 24, was patrolling about 10:30 a.m. Monday when he spotted someone matching the description of a man who had just stabbed a woman outside the Miramar Parkway Plaza shopping center.

When Hadley stopped him, the man lunged at Hadley with a knife and pinned Hadley in his patrol car, police said.

During the struggle, the man stabbed Hadley in the calf and shoulder, unholstered Hadley's gun and shot him in the right hip, police said.

Five passers-by intervened and wrestled the man to the ground.

Police charged Norman J. Charles, 25, with attempted murder of a police officer, two counts of aggravated battery and depriving a police officer of his protection.